Too bad the Ds already sucked up to the Christianists
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Submitted by lambert on Thu, 09/04/2008 - 10:09am
Otherwise, they could go to town on statements like this:
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told ministry students at her former church that the United States sent troops to fight in the Iraq war on a "task that is from God."
"Our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God," she said. "That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that plan is God's plan."
Well, er. Ick.
Yeah, I scanned The Obama 527 Formerly Known as KosMR SUBLIMINAL Did you disinfect afterwards? and no haka about that at all. Strange. Silly me. I thought the war was important, and I thought Christianist influence over the Republican Party was important. But I guess the rotisserie politicos over there know better!
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The Democratic lunge for the right this year...
... took half of the issues which make Palin such an obvious (let me steal this term) fuckneck right off the table: drilling, G*d, faith, abortions, church and state dancing together, faith, etc.
The Obamacrats weren't left with much, so their minions took the low road, and I think they got socked last night with a sucker punch. Oh, she's good at what she does. Completely evil, of course, but also clearly a notch or three above beauty-queen spokesmodel.
Until last night, the only VP candidate who could have scared me into voting for Obama, based on the maps and the math, was Huckabee. Palin is much scarier, and I hope the Democrats stop talking about her uterus, or debating whether her uterus is fair game, long enough to notice.
Right now, it's up to Biden to rip her to shreds in a substantive debate. Obamacrats had better hope he's up to it. They're not running against McCain or Hillary anymore.
If you read past that line
...and read this line: "That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that plan is God's plan", then you see that she is a person of faith who is just trying to make some sense out of the Iraq invasion, hoping that we are on the right side of God.
I added the full quote, thanks
Still, ick.
[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
Did I mention that her son is enlisted?
Her beautiful 19yo son is going over to Iraq in a week. Yes, the GOP just silenced the whole "You don't have a son over there!" thingy.
Creepy moment of her speech last night - rather than just (rightly) applauding him for his service, the assembled faithful started chanting "U!S!A! U!S!A!".
It was ghoulish and sick and completely in their character.
Any Democrat whose faith is wavering about November really SHOULD watch the GOP convention just to get the fear of God back into them. These people really really cannot be allowed back in.
"sucked up to the Christianists"?
Surely we all know that Christian faith is personally important for Obama, but in what way is this sucking up to anyone?
Oh, and it would be nice to drop the fiction that equates "evangelical" with "right wing nut".
How Have Dems Sucked Up? Let Me Count The Ways
- Rick Warren faith off. Very first interaction with McCain and it's at this guy's place.
- Promises to keep faith-based programs in place in Government.
- Promising that "my Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships will also have a broader role – it will help set our national agenda."
- Trying to write out or diminish the mental health basis for abortion, which he later tried to walk back but didn't entirely.
- Using right-wing frames when discussing abortion, not only in making it sound like women have late term abortions because they are "blue" (bullshit, statistically speaking), but also by making it sound like those forced birth zealots understand the moral quandry of abortion while pro-choice forces don't.
I could go on, but I'm beginning to get nauseous.
It would not only be nice, it's been done
In full awareness that not all evangelicals, and certainly not all Christians, are Christianists -- using their religion for political gain, an act that Christ, if he did indeed exist, preached against (Matthew 6:1) -- I don't use the word "evangelicals."
If that fiction is being written, you won't find it in my posts. Another straw man set aflame.
[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.